Awards season always brings out the movie critic in us all. Opining and critiquing become part of daily exchanges in all manner of social media. The fact that the 2013 Oscars are now history deters Turner Classic Movies (TCM) and its legion of fans not. We…
The 14th Academy Awards honored American film achievements in 1941. The ceremony was held at the Biltmore Bowl of the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles on Thursday, February 26, 1942, only a few months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Bob Hope presided as host. The attack on…
This entry is part of the 31 Days of Oscar blogathon and kicks off my participation in what we hope will be an annual event, which both celebrates our love of film and the Oscars – an event that coincides with the month-long Oscars celebration…
The home of the classics, Turner Classic Movies (TCM) played Frank Capra‘s 1934, Best Picture Academy Award winner, It Happened One Night this past weekend. This is, for some reason, a film I never think of when I consider Capra’s great films, and he made…
Since the beginning of cinema popular books and novels have been converted to screenplays in an attempt to draw audiences to big screens to watch stories that were familiar to them. Not to mention books have always been a wonderful resource for film material. During…
The “best” films are the ones that touch us on an emotional level. They stir, they move, they ultimately conquer us. I am all too willing to surrender to them, be transported. That’s what John Ford’s The Quiet Man does. A lovely film full of the requisite…
There are movies. And then there are MOVIES. WWII has just ended and three servicemen meet on their way back home to the town of Boone City. Air Force Captain Fred Derry, Infantry Sergeant Al Stephenson and Sailor Homer Parrish. During the day-long journey home,…
